Battle of Dansville

The Battle of Dansville (1757) was a battle of the French and Indian War that took place in Dansville in Upstate New York's Allegheny Mountains. General William Johnson and 7,600 Colonists got themselves into an ambush at the hands of Joseph Delancy's French-led Huron army of 8,800 troops, only for British ally Hokoleskwa and 26,100 Iroquois warriors to come to the aid of the British and annihilate the French.

Background
In 1756, the French were forced out of Fort Niagara, and the British conquered the Algonquin Territory and the Ohio Valley and forced the French army to retreat into the Iroquois Territory in northeastern New York. General William Johnson had an army of British and Colonial troops defending Fort Niagara, but they were threatened from the east by Fort Oswego and from the south by Joseph Delancy's 8,800 Huron troops and a sprinkling of French line infantry. Planning to destroy the Huron and French troops in the Allegheny Mountains before they could move north and join the large Fort Oswego garrison, William Johnson took 7,600 Colonial troops south to engage the French and Huron troops in the wilderness.

Around the same time, Iroquois Confederacy chief Hokoleskwa moved north with 26,100 Iroquois warriors to attack the French and Huron troops, so Johnson planned to join them in battle to have an almost-certain chance of defeating the French and Huron allies. The British were ambushed, but they expected such a fight. Johnson and the Iroquois were on opposite sides of the French and Hurons, giving them the advantage.

Battle
Johnson's army faced the east while the French and Hurons faced them from the east, so the Colonials had to turn around to face the French and Indians. Fortunately, Delancy's men moved slow enough to allow the British to re-deploy and face them. The three British artillery batteries aligned together and fired point-blank at the French and Huron troops, inflicting heavy losses. Huron chief Kicking Horse led an assault on the British army, but his men were mown down by both cannon fire and muskets. Soon, the Iroquois arrived, but slightly too late to fight against the French and Hurons, who were already fleeing after being fired on from all sides and after being bayonetted down. Kicking Horse was killed, and Delancy fled. Only Delancy's regiment of French line infantry fled, and they were massacred soon after.